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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile spur across the mountains into Port Orford from Leland on the Southern Pacific line 50 miles inland. Soon the Gold Coast R. R., life line of Gilbert Gable's empire since it would be the means of getting ore and timber to the sea or back East by rail, was granted an ICC certificate of convenience and necessity...
...already back in Paris. According to the indictment, what he had apparently done was to import both dresses and mannequins, and the mannequins were told to say the dresses belonged to them; thus M. Rochas avoided the duty. Last week on the door of the pompous Rochas shop on East 6th Street was a receivership notice. Left to answer to a conspiracy indictment for smuggling was only the shop's manager, M. Guy de Font-Joyeuse, whom the mannequins call "Papa...
Most citizens of East Texas look on the Connally "Hot Oil" Act of 1935 (which makes it a Federal offense to ship in interstate commerce more oil than the quotas set up by the Texas Railroad Commission) with the same sort of amused tolerance with which they once looked on the 18th Amendment. Millions of barrels of hot oil have been pumped out of the ground, and numerous minor employes of small companies have been indicted. But the startling fact is that no oil man who maintained his innocence has been tried for violation of the Connally...
...half ago. however, a Federal grand jury brought in indictments against John W. Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
...home-bored with his dowdy wife, pawning his sword to get money for ship stores, worried about manning and outfitting his new command, the two-decker Sutherland- but the winds of romance blow hard as soon as he is out of sight of land. Convoying ships of the East India Co., Hornblower drives off two French raiders (incidentally conquering his secret shame, seasickness), accepts the grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic Englishman takes his first prize, a French merchantman that nets...